The document discusses the Golden Age of piracy in the Caribbean between 1650-1730. During this period, pirates known as buccaneers, privateers, and sea dogs operated out of ports in England, France, and the Netherlands targeting Spanish ships and ports. Some of the major pirate figures during this era included Henry Morgan, Blackbeard, Anne Bonny, and Calico Jack Rackham. While pirates faced danger and hardship, their democratic organization and profitable captures allowed some to attain wealth and status before most were eventually hunted down by naval forces.

1. A GOLDEN AGE ?

3.  Buccaneers
 Pirates
 Privateers
 French Corsairs
 Dutch Sea Beggars
 English Sea Dogs
 Action in the Caribbean spanned from 1500s
to 1830s but
 GoldenAge was from 1650 to 1730

4.  Profiteering
 Political
 Religious

5.  Spanish: Cartagena, Havana, Santiago de Cuba, San
Juan, Maracaibo, Santo Domingo,Trinidad; Porto
Bello in Panama andVeracruz in New Spain
 English: Barbados, St Kitts, Nevis; later Jamaica,
Bermuda, Antigua, Montserrat and Eleuthera
 French: Bahamas,Tortuga, Petit-Goave in Hispaniola
(Haiti today); Guadeloupe and Martinique
 Dutch:Trinidad, Curacao

6.  Changes in Demographics
 Spanish Ports
 Protestant Ports
 European Struggles

7.  European dynastic intrigue and warfare
 Colonial governors turned to buccaneers
 Port Royal, Jamaica: English pirate haven
 Guadeloupe and Martinique (LesserAntilles);
Tortuga andWestern Hispaniola: French
pirate haven
 Trinidad: Dutch Pirate haven
 Nassau, New Providence: all
pirates haven

8.  Jean Fleury
 Francois Le Clerk: ‘Jambe de Bois’
 EdwardThatch,Teach, or Drummond:
‘Blackbeard’
 Henry Morgan
 Stede Bonnet: ‘The Gentleman Pirate’
 CharlesVane
 ‘Calico Jack’ Rackham
 Anne Bonny and Mary Read
 Edward (Ned) Low
 William ‘Captain’ Kidd
 Bartholomew Roberts

11.  French privateer
 Spain’s nemesis
 Captured most of
Moctezuma’s treasure,
1522
 Captured many
Spanish vessels
 He was captured and
executed in 1527

12.  French
 Formidable privateer
 Nicknamed ‘Jambe de
Bois’
 Ransacked Porto Santo,
1552
 Pillaged and burned
down Santo Domingo,
1553
 Plundered Santiago de
Cuba and Panama, 1554
 Settled in SaintTomas
 Killed in 1563

13.  English, born c. 1680
 Operated off the coast
of N.A: 1714-18
 Frigate ‘Queen Anne’s
Revenge’
 Placed slow-burning
fuses under hat and on
beard: ‘fiendish
apparition from Hell’
 Killed by British officer
and crew:5 bullets and
20 slashes

14.  Welsh
 Pirate and Privateer
 Attacked and captured
the City of Panama
 English hero
 Titled nobleman
 Enormous sugar
plantation in Jamaica
 Died in his bed, rich
and respected

15.  Barbadian, English
family
 ‘The Gentleman Pirate’
 Sugar planter turned
pirate in 1717
 Sailed with Blackbeard
as guest or prisoner
 Captured and hanged

16.  English
 Operated out of
Nassau
 Rebelled against
governor Rogers
 His quartermaster was
Calico Jack Rackham
 Calico Jack deposed
him
 Captured and hanged
in Jamaica, 1720

17.  English
 Invented the skull and
crossed swordsflag
 Anne Bonny’s
lover/husband/crew
member
 Mary Read: 2nd crew
member
 Operated in Bahamas
 Captured and hanged
in 1720

18.  Irish
 Pirate but never captain
 Sailed under command
of Calico Jack
 Ruthless and fierce
 Sensational trial in
Jamaica, 1720
 Escaped execution for
being pregnant
 Gave birth and
disappeared

19.  English
 Brutal pirate
 In 3 years, captured
over 100 ships
 Tortured many people
 His crew mutinied in
1724
 He was rescued by a
French vessel
 Was hanged on
Martinique

20.  Scottish (c.1645-1701)
 Privateer and pirate?
 Prominent citizen in NY
 BecameCaptain after
mutiny
 Ship named ‘Blessed
William’
 Killed one crewman
 Buried treasure?
 Hanged 1701 after
sensational trial

21.  Welsh
 Most successful
 Sank or captured about
459 ships
 Plagued the Caribbean
until 1722
 Ships: ‘Fortune’
 Returned to Africa and
died in naval battle,
1722

22.  1. Equal vote and equal shares
 2. Cheating: nose and ears split and
marooned
 3. No gaming for money
 4. Candles to be put out at eight
 5. All weapons to be kept clean and ready
 6. No boys or women on board: penalty of
death
 7. Deserting ship in battle: death or
marooning

23.  8. No quarreling on board: rules for dueling
 9. No talking about quitting: payment for
injuries
 10. Prizes: captain and quartermaster 2
shares; master gunner and boatswain 1 ½
shares; other officers 1 ¼ shares; rest
‘gentlemen of fortune’: 1 share
 11. Musicians to rest on the Sabbath Day

24.  Adventurous
 Cross-section of society
 Uneducated
 Escaping dictatorial ships
 Democratic; vote
 Wealth equally divided: proportionally more for
captain and officers
 Punishment: flogging, hanging; dragged by ropes
 Drink and fight
 No women aboard
 Took mostly clothes, weapons and supplies
 No burying of treasures

25.  Hunger/thirst/cold
 Diet of kidney beans with maggots
 Lack of vitamins
 Loss of teeth, spots
 Scurvy
 Surrounded by dead bodies
 Solace in rum
 Society operated outside normal laws

26.  English Royal Navy and Spanish Guardacosta
 Nassau: last pirates’ haven in Caribben
 Lafitte brothers operated fromTexas and
Louisiana in 1810s
 Privateers profited during LatinAmerican
Wars of Independence
 Steam propulsion ships and strength of US
Navy eliminated all piracy by the 1830s

27.  Were they romantic?
 Were they honorable?
 Were they successful?
 Were they admirable?
 Were they glamorous?

28.  billmar@cfl.rr.com